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Sandra Doorley video shows DA refusing to follow officer’s commands

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8 months ago

April 29, 2024

In a narrative revealed Friday morning within the Democrat and Chronicle, Monroe County District Lawyer Sandra Doorley acknowledged to D&C reporter Gary Craig that there was friction in her interplay with a Webster police officer throughout a Monday visitors cease for dashing.

On Friday afternoon, based mostly on a Freedom of Info Regulation request, the Webster Police Division launched video from the body-worn digicam of the officer, Cameron Crisafulli, and of different officers who responded to the scene.

It exhibits a extremely tense trade with Doorley refusing to observe Officer Crisafulli’s instructions and cursing at him whereas wandering out and in of the storage of her house and at one level coming into her house on Fallen Leaf Terrace in Webster, the place the cease ended.

After Doorley swears at Crisafulli, he says, “I don’t know why you’re performing like this towards me,” mentioning that she ought to have stopped on Phillips Street, the place the officer, together with his emergency lights activated, tried to tug her over after clocking her going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone round 5:30 p.m.

As an alternative of stopping, Doorley continued on to her residence about half a mile away in a subdivision off Phillips Street as a result of, she advised Craig, there was much less visitors there.

Within the footage, when Crisafulli asks her why she did not pull over, she says, sounding exasperated, “As a result of I did not really feel like stopping on Phillips Street at 5:30.”

She advised Craig that she referred to as Webster Police Chief Dennis Kohlmeier from her automotive with Crisafulli behind her.

She stated she needed the chief to inform the officer who she was so he would know there was no potential hazard to him after the cease since she didn’t cease instantly.

Throughout her heated dialog with Crisafulli captured on video, she calls Kohlmeier once more and says, “Are you able to please inform him to depart me alone?”

At one level, Doorley asks Crisafulli how she would have recognized he was making an attempt to tug her over and never another person.

As a result of, he says, “I used to be proper behind you.”

Because the argument continues, he asks, “What’s it that you just’re so in opposition to what I’m doing? I’m doing my job. You say you’re a DA?”

She replies, “I’m the DA … I’m the DA of Monroe County.”

“I perceive that,” says Crisafulli, who ultimately requires a supervisor to the scene. “However that doesn’t provide the proper to go 55 in a 35.”

Doorley asks Crisafulli if he is aware of what she has been coping with all day after which tells him: three homicides within the metropolis of Rochester.

She asks, “Do you assume I actually care if I used to be going 20 miles over the velocity restrict?”

On the finish of the 26-minute video from Crisafulli’s body-cam, Doorley, visibly extra calm, accepts the visitors ticket.

In a press release issued Thursday, she wrote: “By 1:00PM (Tuesday), I pled responsible and despatched the ticket to the Webster City Courtroom as a result of I imagine in accepting duty for my actions and had no intention of utilizing my place to obtain a profit. No person, together with your District Lawyer, is above the rule of regulation, even visitors legal guidelines.”

Reporter Marcia Greenwood covers common assignments. Ship story tricks to [email protected]. Observe her on Twitter @MarciaGreenwood.